Companies often overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will happen in the next 10 years. Consolidation is inevitable across most industries that leverage digital technologies in multiple market segments. If companies are to thrive amid rapid transformation, they must reorient the relationships between society, government, and the way we do business. The ability to understand these global Mega Trends and key transformative themes and their impact on human lives over the next decade allows companies to better prepare for a future of growth.

• How to effectively approach these points of disruption and outline a mechanism to act.
• The core trends that will drive opportunities over the next decade.
• The tools that translate trends into optimal growth potential.
• How companies can embrace trends as innovation fuel to drive new ideation and support existing initiatives.

More companies are building data-driven strategies to fuel growth in the upcoming data economy. Though in its nascent stages, data monetization has a considerable effect on many industry verticals. Currently, over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data is created every single day with a utilization rate of less than 0.5%, and companies need to address the stagnant pools of data underneath to pave the path to digital transformation.

Join Frost & Sullivan's experts along with Chandos Quill, SVP/General Manager at ALC, and Trey Stephens, Consultant, Acxiom, in the webinar, 4 Ways to Monetize Data. The webinar will focus on the key implications of data monetization to a company’s operating models and business functions. It will look at growth opportunities and the future perspective of how data monetization will evolve and disrupt traditional industries like Automotive and Healthcare.

Key Takeaways:

• Jump innovation roadblocks by tapping into new categories of data within an organization.
• Explore the various monetization routes to identify the best possible fit to strategically monetize data assets.
• Interact with industry experts to understand the current advancements in data monetization.

Probiotic, prebiotic and other microbiome-enabled technologies or products with targeted health claims will surely need to have convincing scientific and clinical documentation to receive regulatory green lights across the globe. Even microbiome-based skincare and home care formulations will need to demonstrate clear scientific benefits to ensure higher consumer adoption potential. However, growing microbiome research and technological advances will surely facilitate new scientific insights across microbiome platforms which will drive the development of new products and services across the global microbiome landscape.

At the core, technology convergence involves overlaying two or more emerging or existing technologies to create unique value propositions that could be commercialized. While each emerging technology on its own represents an area of intensified R&D, heightened investments, increased IP activity, and tremendous market potential, the possible convergence of several technologies opens up unprecedented opportunities for new revenue models and the next generation of innovative products and solutions.

Key Takeaways:
· Identify the hottest technologies that will change the direction and landscape of multiple industries
· Learn best practices for convincing internal stakeholders to pursue technology convergence strategies
· Receive action steps to leverage the ecosystem of technology partners to enable

At the core, technology convergence involves overlaying two or more emerging or existing technologies to create unique value propositions that could be commercialized. While each emerging technology on its own represents an area of intensified R&D, heightened investments, increased IP activity, and tremendous market potential, the possible convergence of several technologies opens up unprecedented opportunities for new revenue models and the next generation of innovative products and solutions.

Frost & Sullivan invites you to join Rajiv Kumar, Senior Partner, TechVision, as he discusses the global innovation cycle and disruptive business opportunities in the webinar: Top 50 Emerging Technologies & Growth Opportunities.

Key Takeaways:
• Identify the hottest technologies that will change the direction and landscape of multiple industries
• Learn best practices for convincing internal stakeholders to pursue technology convergence strategies
• Receive action steps to leverage the ecosystem of technology partners to enable

In the global economic and business environment, emerging markets have increasingly taken center stage in the growth strategies of businesses, with GDP growth rates across emerging markets outpacing that of developed economies. With accelerated middle-class expansion and a large and growing working-age population, investors are increasingly taking advantage of emerging markets. Moreover, prudent governance in emerging markets through the provision of state-of-the-art infrastructure and attractive doing-business measures also work as prime growth enablers.

The concept of go-to emerging markets, however, is an ever-changing one in light of heightened volatility in the financial markets, looming geopolitical concerns, increasing competition, and changing business needs. To help companies develop a systematic and proactive approach to emerging market expansion, Frost & Sullivan developed the 2019 Emerging Markets List.

Key Takeaways:
• With the fall of the BRICS, which emerging markets should you focus on?
• Identify go-to emerging markets based on a multi-dimensional approach that evaluates countries across six crucial pillars, including economic growth, business environment, and investment attractiveness.
• Leverage country case studies on emerging market leaders and identify the success stories that propel these countries to the top.

Concerns about continued crude price volatility and decline in consumption due to slowing economic growth across regions indicate more problems for oil companies as they scramble to maintain profits. As with any industry, when margins are affected, service providers take the hit and are forced to cut contract prices. To stay relevant and sustain growth, the oilfield OEMs and service providers have disrupted themselves by adopting broadly minded approaches to eliminate inefficiencies in operations and unlock new opportunities for operating companies.

Frost & Sullivan invites you to join Isaac Premsingh, Industry Analyst, and Manmohan Singh, Senior Consultant, to gain expert insight on patent filing trends and top assignees in the measurement while drilling (MWD) technology landscape and technology trends, followed by an interactive, live question-and-answer session.

Key Takeaways:

• Learn how digital technologies can impact MWD and the initiatives that have laid the foundation for automated directional drilling.
• What are the drilling efficiency improvements?
• Hear about key ways to reduce the cost of service delivery.
• Explore technology from sensors to software platforms that enable the digital transformation in MWD operations.

The world economy is expected to enter a period of slowdown in 2019 amidst pressures from trade wars, higher interest rates, and emerging market capital outflows. Business in the US and China are expected to continue to face pressures from trade wars and are expected to deal with higher import costs by passing costs to consumers, relocating production, or pursuing layoffs.

Key Takeaways:

• Identify and learn more about the top 2019 global economic predictions
• Learn more about the 2019 GDP growth trajectory for key advanced and emerging economies.
• Understand the key economic risks shaping the regions in which you operate.
• Engage in an interactive Q&A session with Frost & Sullivan experts.

From a customer perspective, selecting the right insurance policies through user-based insurance and demand insurance approaches will allow insurers to compete more effectively with powerful social groups such as the elderly and millennials, while prevention-as-a-service models will enable insurers to mitigate some of their most pressing threats to policy payouts. Insurtechs pose a threat to traditional insurers as they can avoid legacy systems and leverage new business models and technologies from inception.

Key Takeaways:

• Understand how to compete more effectively with shifting business models, operations, and value chains
• Discover key insurtech companies and how they are disrupting the traditional insurance workflows, as well as changing how customers buy insurance and interact with their providers
• Emerging insurance business models such as prevention-as-a-service, on-demand insurance, usage-based insurance, and value-added services will allow insurers to compete more effectively in this changing market.

Sensors play a central role in a digital ecosystem, particularly the use of micro- and nano-sensors that can detect a host of biological, organic and inorganic substances, and communicate their detection to a smartphone or a communication system in real time. The ecosystem would enable a seamless digital world in which particulate matter, which could be potentially harmful, can be detected accurately and quickly.

Key Takeaways:
• Learn about the trends that are forcing a paradigm shift in personal and community health monitoring.
• Hear about the latest innovations that are helping to create an immersive environment for non-intrusive, round-the-clock vital signs monitoring.
• Identify challenges, bottlenecks, and barriers to the adoption and growth of the Internet of Medical Things and smart homes.

Across the globe and industries, there is a growing demand to replace steel and heavy metals such as copper and iron with lightweight alternatives. From medical devices and industrial components, to the automotive and aerospace segments, the goal is to produce lighter structures, increase energy efficiency and address environmental regulations. In addition, multifunctional metals that offer higher strength, insulation, and sustenance at higher temperatures are becoming additional prospects demanded by end industries.

Generation Z currently makes up 24% of the global population and is set to have significant spending power. This "digitally native" population cohort, born between 1993 and 2007, will be a substantial customer base in the future.

Key Takeaways:
• Discover the characteristics of Generation Z and how they differ from previous generations
• Understand the social, technological, economic, environmental and political trends shaping Gen Z
• Explore which markets are most important for targeting the Gen Z customer

Emerging technologies such as vertical farming with LED indoor lighting systems and agricultural robotics are improving the quality of farm products and simultaneously stimulating the sustainability of crops. Water conservation advancements, enhanced-efficiency fertilizers, pest management and waste upcycling increase the yield per hectare of agricultural land by providing futuristic ideologies, which result in increased output and the conservation of the environment.

Key Takeaways:
· Learn about emerging technologies that will stimulate the future of agriculture through sustainable practices that use fewer primary resources as compared to conventional agricultural methods.
· Discover new technologies, including equipment telematics, synthetic biology and LED light-based farming, which will increase yield per area of the agricultural field.
· Identify the critical stakeholders and prospects, and find out the best practices in agriculture.

The past two decades have been characterized by tectonic shifts in the global economic and business environment, with emerging markets increasingly taking center stage in the growth and expansion plans of companies across the globe. GDP growth rates across emerging markets have largely outpaced those of developed economies, with accelerated growth enabling middle-class expansion, thereby creating growing demand for goods and services.
Key Takeaways:

• Learn more about 2018 emerging frontrunners, transforming emerging markets, and fledgling emerging markets, ranked using Frost & Sullivan’s proprietary indexing methodology.
• Identify go-to emerging markets based on a multidimensional approach that evaluates countries across six crucial pillars, including business environment and investment attractiveness, amongst others.
• Leverage country case studies on emerging market leaders and identify the distinct advantages that propel these countries to the top.

Key takeaways:
· Identify the hottest technologies that will change the direction and landscape of multiple industries over the next five years and beyond
· Learn best practices for convincing internal stakeholders to pursue technology convergence strategies
· Receive action steps to leverage the ecosystem of technology partners to enable convergence

Key takeaways:
· Identify the hottest technologies that will change the direction and landscape of multiple industries over the next five years and beyond
· Learn best practices for convincing internal stakeholders to pursue technology convergence strategies
· Receive action steps to leverage the ecosystem of technology partners to enable convergence

Chinese entities are aggressively innovating in areas such as artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, supercomputing, quantum technologies, and genomics. Governments, policymakers and multinational corporations outside of China face challenges competing with the Chinese advancements as well as opportunities to level the playing field.
This session will explore answers to crucial questions:

• Where does China stand on various innovation indices globally?
• What does China’s considerable growth in its innovation ranking mean for other leading economies and companies that have business interests in China?
• Which policy initiatives were taken by the Chinese government resulted in improving the innovation ecosystem?

• Learn about emerging technologies and their potential impacts on government and industry investments
• Understand what e-Commerce and P2P economies mean for financial services
• Discover the macroeconomic effect of mobility transformation
• Determine what opportunities smart cities present in the investment community
• Find out the value of bringing connectivity to global populations, particularly regarding economic well-being

Frost & Sullivan's Emerging Market Innovation webcasts are useful for both reactive companies that are new to a country or market, and proactive companies that stay in step with the changing scenarios. Our Emerging Market Growth Monitor, Global Economic Tracker-Insights and Trends (GET-IT) offer demographic, socio-metric, economic, political, and regulatory research by industry and region.

Frost & Sullivan’s Mega Trends research webinars provide identification and analysis of the most important global Mega Trends within and across industries, potential scenarios of specific trends through 2020, and the implications of those trends in transforming business markets, society and cultures. Our services enable companies to develop and implement a macro-to-micro analysis process to integrate Mega Trend knowledge into actionable strategy.